For those that want to see it done with potassium hydroxide: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fYWF25ihe6SpXaQ.html

@mickenoss

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man, haven't seen you post in a while - hoped you were doing okay.

@margitvarganemunkacsi9700

Жыл бұрын

Really cool video! Try adding salt to it to make it harder: In my experience of soap making salt based soap hardening worked best with a combination of 97% hardwood ash 3% pine ash mixture which are much very potassium rich where I live, so I'm sure Your pure sodium hydroxide would make it even harder since I cant really control wood ash. I just dissolve a couple pinches of salt into the water per finished liter of soap.

@CarolReidCA

Жыл бұрын

@@margitvarganemunkacsi9700 allowing it to "cure" for a month or so, as well as heating the soap when reacting (hot processing) helps make it harder too. Some additives, as well as different oils can make it set harder too. There are soap making websites that go into ratios and types of oils to use to make a harder soap, more bubbles, etc. Soap making is fun and easy.

@shitheadjohnson2797

Жыл бұрын

Really nice 1 Cody, its like a block of plastic!!! =)

@trumanhw

3 ай бұрын

Or, beeswax soap with a pumice; something abrasive to clean grease, etc..?

vid suggestion: Na soap is normal soap, K soap is liquid soap, Li soap stops your garage door from squeaking (white lithium grease). But what secrets are Rb and Cs soap hiding? Or other cations like group 2 metals and ammonium.

@robrod7120

2 жыл бұрын

Second this

@Totalinternalreflection

2 жыл бұрын

This dude's asking the right questions

@XVIIstarPt_

2 жыл бұрын

Rb makes gaseous soap? Cs makes plasma soap?

@-danR

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering from the get-go if he would be using KOH. NaOH just seemed... off.

@robrod7120

2 жыл бұрын

@@-danR Using KOH with beeswax, would that change the hardness? Why is it harder in the first place?

Bare hands for playing with mercury, googles and gloves for playing with soap. Never change, Cody!

@JustAnotherBuckyLover

2 жыл бұрын

Lye is far more likely to cause you serious injury than metallic mercury, though.

@EnhancedGamerChris

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, he did add water to lye

@Gameboygenius

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah? Mercury won't dissolve your hands, neither will it risk spitting lye in your face like adding lye to hot wax might have done.

@capatainnemo

2 жыл бұрын

Mercury doesn't dissolve human tissue

@avlinrbdig5715

2 жыл бұрын

having lye squirt in your eye would be hurtin', you'd cry.

"I want to make soap that's textured like a rock" "It's like washing my hands with an actual rock" Task failed successfully

@N.M.E.

2 жыл бұрын

hahaha yeah

@wobblysauce

2 жыл бұрын

Wait till you get soap stones.

Cody coming back after a month of silence with "hematite" on his hands, sporting durable new protection glasses, telling us he's gotten into soap making. Anyone else getting Fight Club vibes?

@theKashConnoisseur

Жыл бұрын

We don't talk about...

@user-yx7dp2pl8t

Жыл бұрын

When the glove's are gone and a scare shows on the back of his hand then Tyler is in the room.

@KANNABULL

Жыл бұрын

If I die young...

@EternamDoov

Жыл бұрын

@@user-yx7dp2pl8t What could the apostrophe possibly be for?

@user-yx7dp2pl8t

Жыл бұрын

@@EternamDoov not sure

I've used beeswax in soap before, usually up to 5% of the fat bill - to make it harder. Though making the soap harder is not a problem, coconut oil gives a really hard soap too if used by itself (and also has much better cleaning properties). In a regular soap bill, beeswax will saponify slower than the other fats so if you use a regular "superfat" of 5%, a lot of that will be comprised of leftover beeswax. Unreacted beeswax in soap will give it a moisturizing effect as it will coat the skin with a thin layer of itself and delay the evaporation of water. It's also why it's used in lip balms (together with things like cocoa butter). (edit) In fact, I've just played a bit in SoapCalc with some recipes, and a soap made from 50% beeswax and 50% coconut oil will again be very hard, but also have much better cleansing properties that 100% beeswax, with all parameters except for hardness falling right in the desirable zones. Just in case you want to try this recipe instead for your "fossils", because I think it will give you overall a better soap.

@mattymerr701

Жыл бұрын

TIL there is a soap recipe calculator that tells you how good your soap will be

I love how we get to see all of Cody's different phases, from mineral extraction, to mashroom growing/tasting then bees, and now soap. Wish I had the same energy.

@higgsbonbon

2 жыл бұрын

Not even evergy, just resources/space. if I owned land I'd be doing all sorts of stuff like this too tbh, but I'm trapped in a tiny apartment with no way out. :)

@nosuchthing4789

2 жыл бұрын

@@higgsbonbon I feel your pain

@KimTiger777

2 жыл бұрын

@@higgsbonbon Yes same here. I hope that someday I could, it is just awful to maybe wait like 30 years for homesteading/small family farm. This world has not been kind to a lot of us unfortunately 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

@nosuchthing4789

2 жыл бұрын

@@KimTiger777 we are not kind to ourselves... ;)

@ramsdawg

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the not bathing phase while wearing copper chain mail. Looks like he just did a 180 from that haha

The harder soap flakes could be a good exfoliating agent to add to softer soaps that won't clog up sewage plants. Looking forward to more!

@bob2859

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea. May be able to take the role of those little plastic beads too.

@F0XD1E

2 жыл бұрын

@@bob2859 Exactly, and I'm pretty sure using plastic beads has already been banned in a lot of marketplaces. Using biodegradable things like walnut shells is better, but if they could just slowly dissolve completely like harder bits of soap I think that would be even better.

@HelenaOfDetroit

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say the same.

@jamespike5161

Жыл бұрын

I like charcoal personally but that’s a damned good idea.

I don’t think a description of a smell has so strongly evoked the sense of it in my mind as, “freshly sanded wood that had spoiled milk on it”

The flakes of beeswax soap did seem to generate more foam, probably because of the bigger surface area. So the grinded up beeswax soap could maybe also be used directly as soap. Though, one might be wasting more of this soap, since the undissolved soap can be washed away.

@juliettaylorswift

2 жыл бұрын

or was it not yet cured thus softer and more soapy? (cure might be wrong word)

@jwlarocque

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you could use small particles of beeswax soap in place of those "exfoliating" microplastic beads.

@bang4915

2 жыл бұрын

How did you comment 16 hours ago but this vid was posted 6 hours ago

@SeanBZA

2 жыл бұрын

@@bang4915 Patreon gets early access....

@kwinvdv

2 жыл бұрын

@@bang4915 Cody often posts a link on Twitter while the video is still hidden.

Interesting. KOH gives softer, more smearable soaps, maybe it would make beeswax soap closer to normal? If so, you could make totally natural potash soap from ash and beeswax

@user255

2 жыл бұрын

Too much fatty alcohols. I think it should be purified to work properly.

@ejkozan

2 жыл бұрын

@@user255 it is possible, but still: who knows. If potassium would make it usable, it would be high end BeeSoap(R) XD

@kdawg3484

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say this. If sodium makes solid soaps, and potassium makes liquid soaps, what will potassium beeswax soap look like? And since this is Cody, obviously gotta eventually make rubidium and cesium beeswax soaps.

@mytech6779

2 жыл бұрын

@@kdawg3484 And lithium. Lithium tallow soap is used for bearing grease. Well, specifically the fatty acid 12-stearate is most common, they don't want the glycerol component of raw tallow. And "lithium complex" just has two or three different fatty acids. Its pretty water resistant compared to sodium though, same goes for calcium soaps.

@attitudeadjuster793

2 жыл бұрын

@@mytech6779 I've always wondered if you could wash your hands with lithium soap/grease. Is it like soapy soap or is it just technically soap?

A wax-related experiment suggestion I've had for a while: since paraffin wax is a combination of alkanes (approx. C20 to C40), would it be possible to separate a block of undyed, unscented paraffin wax into each individual different hydrocarbon component, without cracking any of those molecules? It'd be interesting to see just how accurate those measurements are, as well as test the exact physical properties of each higher alkane. The same could potentially be done for petroleum jelly as to ascertain the chemical composition of that, since I wasn't able to find anything conclusive.

@Anci3ntDice

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds very challenging considering all the different alkanes present with different isomers

@s0rc3

2 жыл бұрын

@@Marco-nr4wy Probably could be done by chromatography, seems to be some literature on related applications.

@mytech6779

2 жыл бұрын

Refineries do not use distillation for heavy oils and waxes because of pyrolysis they use solvent refining, crystalizing the wax out of a chilled solution. This removes most of the oil components but it is not great for a narrow target, heck I'm not even sure how well it can be tuned for isolating alkanes from cyclic compounds. (They are actually trying to remove the wax from the oil, not the oil from the wax. The wax is less in demand.) There is increased use of vacuum distillation these days to shift the crossover molecular weight a bit higher, but it isn't enough for common paraffin or microcrystalline waxes, at least not on industrial scale. You would need a rather extreme vacuum as far as distillation setups go and very careful control over both that vacuum and temperature to maintain the target separation. It may be better to find another method like very targeted crystallization conditions.(including solvent selected for the right amount of polararity to discriminate cyclic hydrocarbons)

@mytech6779

2 жыл бұрын

@@Marco-nr4wy The branching actually has very minor effect on vapor pressure, it is almost all about molecular mass. Though branching structures may have larger effect on freezing/crystallization point and on reactivity and solubility.

@hantrio4327

2 жыл бұрын

@@mytech6779 There is an interesting technique to separate n-alkanes from hydrocarbon mixtures. Urea forms a crystal lattice with "tubes" in it these have the right size for n-alkanes to fit in them. Branched alkanes don't fit because they are to bulky for these tubes. This property allows urea to form adducts with n-alkanes which allows the extraction of them.

A few years ago I was doing the same thing! I was replicating geodes with dipping different mixtures of soap (at the time I was using glycerin) with different colour, scent and textures. I'd make balls and split them afterwards. Still have some pictures if you would be interested! Good luck with the venture :)

@TaxPayingContributor

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds cool! Lavender Amethyst

That was really interesting. Love the idea of the fossils emerging as you use the soap.

I skip the whole process and simply use bees to wash my hands. The hurting lets you know it's working!

Heard a lot of your ideas, Cody, all incredible, but you should keep this one! “Fossils” breaking out of soap is like a 10/10 business idea, it has everything! Seeing all these different schools of knowledge come together and mix with that spark of ingenuity and creativity, just wow!

@ColonelSandersLite

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think my nephews and nieces would love that.

Seems like the beeswax will make great fossils than for your "normal" soap. I bet you can soften that beeswax slightly as well. I also think it would probably make for some extremely durable soap, something like survival soap hahaha. Great for any wasteland wanderer! Great video as always Cody!

@james14294

2 жыл бұрын

Well, if you add beeswax to other soap to harden it, I feel like you add other soaps to beeswax soap to soften it, just in opposite ratios

I guess a mix of wax and a more traditional fat would result in something a tad softer? Time to experiment with ratios. :P

@calebbalts7618

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same

@andersjjensen

2 жыл бұрын

There are thousands upon thousands of soap charts and recipes on the internet, so it should be easy to hit the desired hardness in only a couple of tries. A normal "old school hard" bar of soap (think of something you'd get in the army in the 50s) only contains a few percent of bees was soap. The rest is lard, coconut and olive oil.

Well, now that you've mentioned off-hand that butter can be made into soap, I think we all need to venture down that stinky rabbit hole with you as our guide.

@JanicekTrnecka

2 жыл бұрын

Butyric acid and its friends....no thanks, I have already puked...

@JanicekTrnecka

2 жыл бұрын

But purely for scientific purposes...and with Cody as a guide! Hell yes!

@spacestuff

2 жыл бұрын

Butter and Cody don't mix. See the butter incident video to find out.

The smell is hard to describe...proceeds to give two very specific scents mixed together. Love you Cody.

Considering the coarsness, I think smaller grains of it mixed into regular soap would make a pretty effectively lava soap competitor

@driprubies2464

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant idea!

@CRneu

2 жыл бұрын

oatmeal is a common additive to soaps to produce an exfoliating surface.

@dmg5546

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking it'd exfoliate if incorporated into a softer soap.

@karlexceed

2 жыл бұрын

I especially like this idea because the normal soap additives are *not* soap and that always seemed strange to me.

@danl6634

2 жыл бұрын

Plus i wonder if it would eventually dissolve instead of blocking up pipes like pumice

I was just binging all of your bee keeping episodes yesterday, this is great!

"Hope you enjoyed" Let me just tell you Cody, you don't need to hope. I definitely did. I don't know why I found your experiment today so hilarious yet still intriguing. Can't wait to see the soap fossils.

I've had the 'taste test' for leftover lye go very wrong, when there actually was some. A drop of water on the soap, a few seconds for it to rest on the surface and absorb any alkali, followed by a strip of pH paper... That's more my speed.

I wonder what else it could be used for. I imagine there are applications in which a very hard soap could be very useful. I can't speak to the power of the soap, but maybe there are applications for cleaning appliances/dishes? Something where you wouldn't want the soap to dissolve quickly and want it to resist some force.

@FooxYT

2 жыл бұрын

dishwashing/clothes washing machines might be a good example, as it seems to also be generating little ammounts of foam, which is required for this appliances

I got into soapmaking as a bit of pandemic hobby in late spring 2020. Ended up spending quite a few months messing around with oil blends, comparing ratios, seeing what one type does better than another by comparison, rather then relying on shitty descriptions online (boy there are some shitty soap sites with bad recipies. Stuff that would go rancid in months because of absurdly high linoleic content, etc) The amount of time that you can put in on just the chemistry side if you care to is amazing. I havent used bees wax, but longer chain unsaturated fats that are solid or waxy at room temp, boy to they go off fast. When you showed the temp I had a brief panic moment "thats going to seize instantly" Because I forgot hot process was a thing, because I dont ever mess with it, and I havent touched cold process since the end of 2020 because I ended up making enough soaps for myself, a few friends, and my parents to last for 2 years...

@antibull4869

2 жыл бұрын

The main thing I learned regarding chemistry during my Biochemistry major earning was that: everything has a chemistry and every inch of it is going to be 5x more complicated than you originally thought. Perfect example: concrete. Original guess was its just a set amount of small rocks in a solution that sets into a solid. Hell no. That stuff can be far more complicated depending on time to set, strength of the concrete after setting, the chemical properties of the concrete components, the effects of the environment on those properties, the lifespan of the concrete, etc. I could not stand to be a chemical engineer 😂. It would drive me insane.

Love your videos Cody! You a a true scientist. Starting by asking questions out of curiosity. This makes people warm to delve more into sciences.

Cody I just want to sincerely thank you and commend you for being a great youtuber over the many years. So many youtubers sell out and completely change their personality and are completely focused on money that they lose who they are. Thank you for staying true, and not becoming obnoxious and greedy. Your videos have always improved, and never have gotten worse. Thank you for making great content

This is exactly why I love your videos cody, you have an idea and just have to see if it's possible, it's great!

There used to be a product to soap sliver recycling that was basically a spring-loaded grater in the bottom of a box which would grate the slivers to make useable shavings for hand washing. Might be useful if you can find or make one for the beeswax soap.

@codyslab 7 years ago I started watching your bee series. After awile I moved back to the cuntryside and I found a bee guru here that holds courses in top bar hives and after a course I was sold. this year I built three hives of my own and they are all thriving. I am soo glad you made the series since it was a huge stepping point for me to start bee keeping. greetings from Sweden

Big difference between bee's wax and fat is that fat is mostly fatty esters of glycerol (triglycerides), whereas wax is mostly fatty esters of fatty alcohols. So after saponification, your soap should have quite a high content of fatty alcohols, which will remain much more hydrophobic than the fatty acid salts portion.

@user255

2 жыл бұрын

I made similar comment. I wonder if hexanes could be used to remove the fatty alcohols. I think water would just cause emulsion.

With harder soap fats you're supposed to "superfat" them, AKA add more fat than the typical Sodium Hydroxide to fat ratio. This typically makes for a softer soap, though I'm not exactly sure about how much it would work for pure beeswax. Though this is also generally a good thing to do in order to assure there's no leftover Sodium Hydroxide!

Do you reckon you could make candles from them as well? I'm sure I've heard of a beeswax candle before. And it's good to see you again lad!

@renderedpixels4300

2 жыл бұрын

id think so. a flame is probably more resilient and if it takes longer to melt maybe youd get more tine out of them?

@joltedjon

2 жыл бұрын

I think churches use 100% beeswax candles

@Sinaeb

2 жыл бұрын

beexwas soap candle

@Spectre4490

2 жыл бұрын

This video already was on chanel

Only Cody can say "I've gotten into making soap" without me immediately rolling my eyes.

@juliusroman8616

2 жыл бұрын

Why would you roll your eyes?

@Totalinternalreflection

2 жыл бұрын

Haha so much

Love your vids man. No matter what you talk about, I love it! Keep 'em coming!

Looks like a great deal of experimentation and recipe transcription required to create consistent results. Sounds like a fun and rewarding hobby. Could even turn into a revenue stream if you felt like it. Chicken Ranch Natural Beeswax Soaps.

@Aengus42

2 жыл бұрын

I think you'll find The Chicken Ranch is a WHOLE different kettle of fish! But i bet they use a lot of soap! 😆

Would be interesting to see how this works for something like a phonograph record. The so called ''wax'' cylinders that were used early on were actually a type of soap that contained aluminum in the recipe I seem to recall.

Never gets old seeing the camera setup specifically for eating something unusual.

thank you for uploading, its been insane to think ive been watching you for ten years. you really helped me love science

I do love how Cody knows what it's like to touch a car battery with your tongue... classic.

Great to see ya buddy love watching your videos always very interesting glad you are doing well I seen a friend make lye soap once and I seen it done at a Amish place amazing what they had to do back in the old days to have soap lol thanks for sharing buddy

Very impressive soap collection! Thanks for gracing us with a new video!

1:26 haha the look in your eyes when you said "All beeswax" is so pure :). Never change Cody

After the Amazing series "Will it charcoal?", Cody's Lab presents "Will it soap?"

@5467nick

2 жыл бұрын

Clearly we must now charcoal the soap, finish burning it, and use its ashes to make more soap.

@gianniermini5484

2 жыл бұрын

@@5467nick that would be nice

Apart from giving me fight club vibes, you could add the flakes of bee's wax soap as an exfoliating substance in a a softer soap substrate. This is usually done with left over ground coffee or something, but then you just end up with a ton of ground coffee down your sink and you are back to square 1 ( they say it's good for the enviroment as they are recycling the coffee grounds, in reality they are just selling them to you twice), at least this way the exfoliating particles are actually soap too!

Always a treat to see a vid form you Cody, no matter what it is! Keep it up!

Oh you only give us the best. All my love, anything you make is fantastic

This just reminds me of HTME making 100% wheat beer.

@terryboyer1342

2 жыл бұрын

I've tasted wheat beer. I won't be bothering to again.

@micahphilson

2 жыл бұрын

@@terryboyer1342 it's my favorite, but a 100% wheat beer would be something else.

Will it charcoal?

Always happy to see a new upload Cody!

"It also dissolves slowly which makes it less useful" I thought that was the point. Success!

Nice to see you back Cody!! Thats a lot of soap lol

I was playing around with soapmaking recently with some expired MCT oil I had around, and noticed that beeswax was on the sap chart. Was wondering what that would turn out like, it's really too bad it doesn't carry over the nice beeswax smell. Lanolin was also on the chart and I don't know what to expect from saponifying that since it's so goopy and sticky,

Great to see another video. Most interesting project(s) as always!

I have always enjoyed your journey through life. Glad you can bring us along it is entertaining and interesting.

Always nice to see you back in business. Your gardening series really inspired me to grow something too. Wouldn't you talk about the reaction when you made the beeswax a soap and it just puffs as a foam in a second?

Why would you leave that unlisted? It's awesome!!

You could make the beeswax soap into coarse granules and then incorporate those into your softer bar of soap. Might be a nice exfoliant or grease scrub.

A new Cody's Lab video is always a pleasure !

I can't see Cody selling many bars of this type of soap, it has no fragrance, and extremely user unfriendly for those with skin. Still nice experiment. Maybe good for soap carving ?

Pretty cool, thank you.

Awesome experiment. Always wondered about this… as a fellow soap maker and bee keeper.

You "rock" man! As usual, thinking out of the box... awesome!

You really have the habit of bringing me on the right track when my research into a topic has led me nowhere. I'm sure if I studied chemistry, it'd be much easier, but now I'm confident I can make a low carbon impact vegetarian soap! Thanks a lot!

@jonathanodude6660

2 жыл бұрын

Vegetarian soap? You mean most soaps?

@ChaonicMew

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanodude6660 Yep

I humbly propose a Cody'sLab tee shirt: "Well, we've definitely done SOMEthing to it..."

This is a really cool thing give us more of cody we love every bit of it!

So happy your still doing videos man.. I've only seen mostly videos from 3-5 years ago.. 🙂

Hey Cody. I always like to see bees and bee-themed videos. I found the link to this one on Twitter by chance as it is unlisted. Would you have listed it in one of your channels sooner or later, or will I have to watch out for sneaky Twitter releases too?

@kevincharecki8644

2 жыл бұрын

You can support Cody on Patreon and get the links to unlisted videos firsthand

@Moonsauc3

2 жыл бұрын

Cody has a beekeeping channel called CodysBlab I found not too long ago

The way Cody said "look at that! Bubbles!" made me smile

@saahilpurohit1313

2 жыл бұрын

Scientific are just overgrown kids - some Scientist

This is like the 5th time i googled something i havnt gooogled in years and you did it within a few months. Props my dude

Remember when the soft soaps started adding microplastic beads to their soap? Maybe they could use this instead?

If the last shot in the video are the items you're going to hide in your bars of soap so that it can slowly be exposed as you use it, I think these are good but I think that the more detail in the "artifact" the better people will like it. If it's just the general shape of fossils I think people might not appreciate them as much. JMO mind you... *: )*

I think what would be awesome for you would be a lathe and mill to build all sorts of custom components. Maybe soap moulds, extruders, structural stuff, brackets to hold things together, etc Or cheaper with 3d printing. Personally I dont believe I have the time for it but I think since youre one of the legit youtube channels out there so you can afford to undertake these things

Watching this project come to fruition has been super great 🥰

perhaps a rounder shape would remove the hardness issues, and an increase in surface area would improve the creation of lather/bubbles perhaps a golfball shape, round and with additional surface area?

I love this so much that I think I'll try it some day... saving this to a playlist for now

This project is so cool! 😭💕

I love how every single of your videos is different from another in creative new ideas

What I've learned from this video is that beeswax can actually look a lot like earwax at certain stages of this whole process shown here. Very interesting!

Hey, Cody! Thanks for uploading. This was cool

How hot was the water :) At one point I lost if they were stained red or heat burned! Glad you posted a video again Cody we miss u dude

I get so happy when I see you posting happy to see you good

I love watching Cody. He makes me feel less intelligent and I appreciate that humbling

Haha I sware rocks soap chemistry must be a natural progression glad to see you are doing well Cody a bit worried about a few of you KZread guys lately vids have slowed down thought you may have given up like nurdrage

It's nice to see you back, Cody!

The tongue: the ultimate chemical analyzer. Who needs indicator strips? It is always a pleasure to watch your videos. Always something to learn!

Enjoying the bee type videos, very interesting!

great video cody! lots of love from belgium

Those little shavings would be cool as an abrasive. I've seen some soap bars use mildly abrasive particles to help with scrubbing. Could make for a fun sandstone soap.

Beautiful soaps. What type of oil did you use for the other soap that you made.

The doctor squatch soap sounds like they’re trying to sell you on how good it tastes when they read off the ingredients lol. I think it’s to marinade us for the sasquatches.

Zero interest in soap making but I’m watching this for my guy Cody. Keep uploading bro.

What a fun video to watch, thanks Cody

learning new things from master every time . thank you so much 👍

Man I had considered making soap out of some beeswax, now I'm glad I didn't. Thanks for the vid dude! I hope you're doing well.

Back in high school in my advanced class, I had to do a capstone chemistry project and I chose to make biodiesel. In all honesty, soap making and biodiesel are incredibly similar chemical reactions, and in making biodiesel you often make soap too, so you have to wash the diesel to remove it all. I did it with a bunch of different oils, but since I was in highschool my equipment was sub-par and I ended up with mostly soap. Since beeswax is a fatty acid, I'm betting you could make biodiesel with it. It probably wouldn't be very good, but theoretically you could.

Great video like usual. I had no idea you could make soap out of bees wax

This was really cool Cody thank you.

I have always used beeswax mixed with lard or tallow for soap making its very cool to think it will work alone.